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UK Temporarily Bans Export of .1 M. Italian Renaissance Bronze

UK Temporarily Bans Export of $6.1 M. Italian Renaissance Bronze

Published by Jenni Sidey

The UK has temporarily banned the export of a rare and highly valuable Renaissance bronze by the artist known as Antico. Seated Nymph, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (ca. 1455–1528), is valued at £4.6 million ($6.1 million). UK museums and galleries have until December 17 to make an offer following the decision, taken on the advice of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA). Antico’s signature works are very rare to come to the auction market. Seated Nymph was the last and the priciest to come to the block, fetching £1.4 million ($2.3 million) at Sotheby’s London in 2009. It’s the only Antico piece to exceed $250,000. In the years since, just five pieces, all credited to his workshop or a follower, have come to public sale. Source link

UK Temporarily Bans Export of .1 M. Italian Renaissance Bronze

UK Temporarily Bans Export of $6.1 M. Italian Renaissance Bronze

Published by Jenni Sidey

The UK has temporarily banned the export of a rare and highly valuable Renaissance bronze by the artist known as Antico. Seated Nymph, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (ca. 1455–1528), is valued at £4.6 million ($6.1 million). UK museums and galleries have until December 17 to make an offer following the decision, taken on the advice of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA). Antico’s signature works are very rare to come to the auction market. Seated Nymph was the last and the priciest to come to the block, fetching £1.4 million ($2.3 million) at Sotheby’s London in 2009. It’s the only Antico piece to exceed $250,000. In the years since, just five pieces, all credited to his workshop or a follower, have come to public sale. Source link

Italian Doctors May Be Prosecuted for Refusing to Assist in Suicide

Italian Doctors May Be Prosecuted for Refusing to Assist in Suicide

Published by Jenni Sidey

This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author.. Assisted suicide/euthanasia legalization is spreading like a stain. But with most doctors refusing to participate, how do we ensure that people who want to die are indeed made dead? Answer: Blatant coercion. Usually, the attacks on “medical conscience” (as it is known) involves threatening refusing doctors’ professional licenses. The medical literature is rife with such advocacy by bioethics notables like Ezekiel Emanuel, Julian Savulescu, and Peter Singer, who argue that doctors either participate in requested legal medical procedures — even if morally opposed — or face processional discipline. If doctors don’t like it, these activists argue, they should get out of medicine. Some doctors have already faced the music over such refusals. In Australia a doctor was disciplined for refusing a sex-selection abortion. Ontario, Canada, courts have ruled that doctors must either euthanize legally qualified patients or tender an “effective referral,” i.e., procure another doctor for the patient the refusing MD knows will provide the lethal jab — in other words: forced complicity. Now in Italy, the next …

Vito Coppola: 'They Asked If I Was Strictly's New Italian Stallion… I'm More Like A Pony'

Vito Coppola: 'They Asked If I Was Strictly's New Italian Stallion… I'm More Like A Pony'

Published by Sam Flores

Strictly Come Dancing professional Vito Coppola Given just how many professionals have come and gone through the doors of Strictly Come Dancing’s iconic ballroom over the last two decades, it’s never been more difficult for one to really break through as a stand-out star. Still, in the last five years, Vito Coppola has managed to make his mark and emerge as a real fan-favourite among Strictly viewers. After just two seasons in the cast, Vito managed what some of the show’s longest-serving pros never achieved, by lifting the coveted Glitterball Trophy. In that time, he’s also made the live final on an additional two occasions, performed in some of the most popular Strictly routines in recent memory and is the current reigning Christmas champion, thanks to his work in last year’s festive special. You can put his success and popularity down to a few factors. Yes, he’s proficient in all the usual hallmarks we associate with Strictly – the high-energy performances, the imaginative choreography, the low-cut shirts. But the secret ingredient for Vito, truly, is …

The yellow bean from Peru that Mexican and Italian cooks love

The yellow bean from Peru that Mexican and Italian cooks love

Published by Sam Flores

When Pizzana’s Daniele Uditi opened Lele Dinner Club, the pop-up supper series he held in a West Adams warehouse last year, one standout dish — “the crowning glory,” as restaurant critic Jenn Harris put it — was a wonderfully thick pasta e fagioli, ladled out to each diner from a gigantic clay pot. What piqued my interest about Uditi’s slow-cooked broken pasta-and-beans stew was that instead of traditional white cannellini beans — Italy’s most well-known legume — the chef used pale yellow Peruanos, a bean that comes from Mexico by way of Peru. One of the goals behind the Lele pop-up for Uditi, who grew up in Caserta, outside of Naples, was to highlight the cuisine of his native Campania. So using a Mexican bean in a staple of Italian home cooking was surprising, almost like an act of rebellion. But for Uditi, it was all about his discovering a bean that came closest to the pasta e fagioli he ate as a child. “I’m married to a beautiful Mexican woman from Guadalajara, Jalisco,” Uditi …

Pioneering Italian Video Artist Dies at 86

Pioneering Italian Video Artist Dies at 86

Published by Jenni Sidey

Fabrizio Plessi, a pioneer of video art, died on August 23 in Venice at 86. His death was reported by La Repubblica. Plessi was best known for engaging history and tradition with the digital, creating installations that took on an architecture of their own. A true experimenter, he also had a flair for eschewing one medium for another, moving between water, fire, stone, memory, and most recently glass. As a teenager, Plessi moved to Venice, first to study at the city’s Art High School and then at its Academy of Fine Arts. He completed his degree in 1962 and was appointed professor in painting. During this period, in the early ’60s, he began to research water as a subject and conceptual medium spanning time, memory, and movement—a concept that would continue throughout his career. Source link

2500-Year-Old Necropolis Discovered Under Italian Pasta Factory

2500-Year-Old Necropolis Discovered Under Italian Pasta Factory

Published by Jenni Sidey

Archeologists conducting preventative excavations ahead of an industrial expansion in southern Italy have discovered a well-preserved, 2,500-year-old necropolis. The news was first reported at a press conference held on July 15 by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan Area of Naples (Soprintendenza ABAP Napoli), which supervised the excavation. The cemetery, which was unearthed beneath the historic Garofalo pasta factory in Gragnano, near Naples, dates to the Archaic period (8th–6th centuries BCE), when the surrounding region of Campania was a cosmopolitan mix of native, Greek, and Etruscan cultures. Containing 85 graves, it appears to have been, at least in part, a burial site for a wealthy 6th-century elite. Source link

Ferragosto recipes: 4 Italian dishes from Bocca di Lupo

Ferragosto recipes: 4 Italian dishes from Bocca di Lupo

Published by Daniella Wilson

There are national holidays, and then there is Ferragosto: the one day in August when Italy appears to agree that the only sensible response to the heat is to stop working, leave the city and find somewhere good to eat. Beaches fill, shutters come down and families head for the coast or countryside with enough food for lunch to drift comfortably into dinner. Its roots are considerably older than the modern summer holiday. The name comes from the Latin Feriae Augusti, or “the holidays of Augustus”, a period of rest introduced by Emperor Augustus in 18BC after the hard work of the harvest. The celebration originally fell at the beginning of the month, before becoming entwined with the Catholic feast of the Assumption on 15 August. What has survived is the central idea: a pause at the height of summer, best spent outdoors, at a table, with other people. That is the spirit Bocca di Lupo is bringing to Somerset this August. For two evenings, the Soho restaurant will leave Archer Street for Wyke House …

Italian Americans Say Mamdani Tweet About Columbus Shows ‘Hatred’

Italian Americans Say Mamdani Tweet About Columbus Shows ‘Hatred’

Published by Jenni Sidey

American conservatives are once again up in arms about a six-year-old tweet by Zohran Kwame Mamdani, elected last year as New York’s mayor. It was June 2020, and a wave of iconoclasm was sweeping the United States. Minneapolis police had murdered George Floyd, an African American man, the month before, and protesters argued that monuments to Confederate soldiers and leaders, slaveholders, and similar figures didn’t just mark important parts of American history, but rather promoted their white supremacist views. Source link

Contributor: What a 700-year-old Italian fresco can teach America today

Contributor: What a 700-year-old Italian fresco can teach America today

Published by Sam Flores

There are moments when history reaches across the centuries with startling clarity. Standing in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, and looking at Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory of Good and Bad Government,” I had one of those moments. Nearly 700 years old, the series of fresco paintings includes a depiction of a bustling city that illustrates the effects of good government, as well as representations of the decay that results from arbitrary and unjust rulers. The visual treatise on political economy holds important lessons for us today. Lorenzetti’s city isn’t thriving because its government is energetic or ambitious. It’s thriving because a wise government knows its place. The people creating its wealth aren’t politicians. They’re merchants opening shops, artisans practicing their crafts, builders raising new homes, farmers bringing goods to market, families walking safely through the streets and a couple getting married. Prosperity comes from their voluntary cooperation. The government appears as the guardian of the rules that make prosperity possible: justice, security, predictable laws and limits on arbitrary power. That distinction is everything. America did …